My wife has talked me down from writing another nasty letter to my step-son’s father. Al obviously had another sit down brainwash session with AJ this weekend (which is really quite industrious of the jerk-wad, since his son was only with him for a few hours). AJ stated rather matter-of-factly a few moments ago that “Mark isn’t my family.” Iris talked AJ through the process of understanding how I in fact was his family,...

People won’t leave my damn car alone. I’ve never had my car broken into before last year when my radio was stolen and my windows and dashboard were destroyed. Yesterday someone broke into my car again, and destroyed part of the engine taking out the battery. I swear, I’m so pissed right now I could spit nails. /rizzn

I just wanted to take a second and thank all of you for the loads of letters and IMs I’ve recieved in response to my post about AJ’s father, Al. I appreciate it, and your words were very encouraging. The comments ranged from the Star Wars-esque (“Your the true father, Mark, only you!”), to the common sense (“Love AJ the best way you can. Your love will carry more weight in the long run than the confusion of the...

There’s just a ton of stuff I want to talk about and do with the blog lately and just don’t have the time resources to do it. Spotplex looks cool, but I can’t get them to issue me my code for my blog widget. P2P banking is here, and I want to talk about that a bit – bringing power away from the banks and back to the people. Google getting hit for a billion – that’s big stuff. I talked to Joel this afternoon...

I don’t often make direct references to my personal life, but the events of last weekend and this morning, I believe, compel me to at least journal my thoughts on the topic. As most of you know, I’m recently married (and still loving it completely, incidentally). With the addition of my wife to my family came her five year old son, A.J. The reason my wife was able to marry me is that the father of her first child was a capital jerk...